The Progressive School Vol 02 Issue 04

VIEWPOINT
LEARNING CHRISTENED ONCE AGAIN!
Salla Vijay Kumar
Lecturer & Academic In-charge, IHM Ahmedaba
We need to create Learning Rooms and not Classrooms, because there exist massive, innumerable
and hands-on classrooms, outside existing structures of classrooms.
Salla Vijay Kumar is a National
Awards’ Winning Lecturer. With a
Masters in Philosophy from MKU,
Madurai and pursuing Ph.D.
(Management). He is lecturer &
academic in-charge at I H M
Ahmedabad since 2002.He is
a proud recipient of four National
Level Awards: National Award for
Excellence in Hospitality Education
the best teacher 2008-09 MoT, GOI l
Aspiring Researcher 2015 IHC; and
Award of Excellence in the field of
Tourism & Hospitality 2018 , IHC.
His research interest pertains to
areas of human resource development,
food, hospitality and tourism.With
International exposure to Bahrain,
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and
Switzerland,he has been instrumental
through industry operations, academia
and writing (in various disciplines); he
is a Qualified Learning Facilitator
from Ecole Hotelier De Lausanne,
Switzerland and handling multiple
portfolios.
School is one of the places we
learn at, and we learn at so many
schools. Some are individuals,
some are institutions and many others
are senses-oriented. It is the education
that is driven by so many stakeholders
as a manifestation to acquire, develop
and execute. The same classroom could
be represented as “This Room belongs to
those who believe to use it for the purpose
of LEARNING.” So we need to create
Learning Rooms and not Classrooms,
because everyone will agree with me that
there exist massive, innumerable and
hands-on classrooms, outside existing
structures of classrooms.
The objective of a teacher is not
teaching, primarily. It
is to enable learning
as the outcome of the
exercise. There is a
paradigm shift in the
air, the way education
is looked as tableau of
a barely exhibited place
where a teacher with or
without a stick in hand,
but a book is stationed
to see you do your C.W.
and standing in front of
you asking for the H.W. and this is evident
not only in the primary and secondary
levels of schooling but predominant in
institutions of higher learning also. These
engage in more of back home assignments
- this could be an underlying trend but
contact hours play their vital role in the
process. The shift is taking its place in
the noble profession from Teaching to
Learning. The clients in this case happens
to be a much advanced next generation
students who need to be shown just the
direction and they find the light at the end
of the tunnel. There can be a method of
accrediting learning points and rewards
suitably. Perks count for one and all.
The close-in curricular tactics against
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